, 1887-07-30
A FAMILY ROW.
Blood urdIing Narrative of a wo-
man from Kansas.
She Proposes to Regain Her Child
by Legal Process.
A Girl Refuses to Recognize the
Authority of Her Mother.

Miss Jennie Babb, a handsome girl
about II years of age, arrived in Chey-
enne from suffering Kansas about two
months ago, and some time after accept
ed a situation in the steam laundry. She
made her home with an estimable lady
who resides on West Seventeenth street,
and little was thought of the advent of
the girl, as the Babb family consisting of
Miss Jennie. two other children, and hus
band and wife had previously resided in
Cheyenne, and had many friends and ac-
quaintances about the city. Mrs. Babb
was a fine looking woman, who labored
continually to support her husband, who
was an invalid. The family left here sew.
eral years ago, and it was currently re
ported hat the father had died and that
the woman had departed from the path
of rectitude and was living with . man
without the sanction of either the law or
church. The girl now asserts that this
state of affairs actually existed.
"Wednesday evening a woman upon
whose once fair face tell tale ''crows feet
have pre-empted claims, appeared at
Marshal Schnitger's office and poured
into the officials ear a tale worthy the
place of a prize Youths Companion
story. Her name, she said, was Mrs
Harris, formerly Mrs. Babb, and she had
left her Kansas home to rescue her
daughter Jennie from the keeping
of a woman whom she was convinced
had no good intentions toward the
girl; that the woman had prevented the
daughter from visiting her loving mother,
and had in various other ways interfered
with the domestic machinery of the Babb-
Harris family, among other things Undue.
ing the girl to leave her sunny Kansas
home and emigrate to Cheyenne. The
woman wound UP her recital by request
ing the marshal to arrest the girl and
forcibly return her to the aching void in
the anxious mothers arms, and at the
same time perform a Christian act by
uniting the di~smembered family.
MI. Schnitger replied that he had re.
tired from the Christian act business,
having been hit over the head with a
hand painted cuspidore the last time he
had essayed the role, but that he would
interview the alleged hayward child, at
the INT time informing the delegate
from Kansas that the lady with whom her
daughter was residing was above ~reproach.
and that no harm could possibly come to
the child while under the chaperonage OF
the lady. The officer hunted up the girl
and delivered the message from her
mother. The young lady replied: "You
tell my mother that l don't want to see
her, and I'll tell you why" Whereupon
she related her mothers history substan-
TALLY as given above, concluding with the
anxious query, "She cant have me ar
rested, can she?" Marshal Schnitger re-
Piled that he thought not, and that he
would advise her to continue in the even
tenor of her way, awaiting further deyeI-
opments.
hio' Dapo was when Sne
learned that her daughter persistently re-
fused to recognize the authority which she
had previously supposed she held over the
child, and at last accounts was still threat
ening to engage an attorney and have the
girl replevined or habeas corpused, she
wasn't quite sure which. The young lady
told the marshal that she had visited her
mothers room at a hotel in search of a
sister whom she thought might possibly
be along, and that she had learned of
Mrs. Harris presence in the city by OBJ
serving a woman whom she knew to be
an associate of her mothers. The sister
has probably been left in Kansas, as she
has not yet materialized. as.